Rúnar Karlsson | Friday November 7 - 2008

Video from the Jan Mayen trips last summer

Here is a short video from our trips to Jan Mayen. We sailed from Isafjordur in June to climb the active volcano Mt. Bereenberg (2277m). I skied the mountain and later heard that I was the third person to ski the mountain! There are some minor hickups in the video I want to fix (it´s my first video editing job!) but the quality is nothing to be ashamed of. More coming soon from Greenland last August.

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Wednesday 12 November | 11:54 Godag wrote...

I can tell you for sure you was not the third person to ski the mountain.
You probably was one of the first 100 or something.
I personally know of 2 expeditions with more than 3 skiiers each.

Monday 26 January | 20:37 Johan wrote...

Godag: This is wrong. You would have to inform about who those are. I know about one expedition from the north side, with three members. (Stian Hagen and.... - But they did not ski from the highest top. Then there are Colin Samuels, from Haakon VII top, and then Runar. Of course a lot of people has used skis to Nunataken, at 1500 metres, that's easy:)

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